
The Remaking of Republican Turkey
Memory and Modernity since the Fall of the Ottoman Empire
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The Remaking of Republican Turkey
Memory and Modernity since the Fall of the Ottoman Empire
About this book
Between 1945 and 1960, the birth of a multi-party democracy and NATO membership radically transformed Turkey's foreign relations and domestic politics. As Turkish politicians, intellectuals and voters rethought their country's relationship with its past and its future to facilitate democratization, a new alliance with the United States was formed. In this book, Nicholas L. Danforth demonstrates how these transformations helped consolidate a consensus on the nature of Turkish modernity that continues to shape current political and cultural debates. He reveals the surprisingly nuanced and often paradoxical ways that both secular modernizers and their Islamist critics deployed Turkey's famous clichés about East and West, as well as tradition and modernity, to advance their agendas. By drawing on a diverse array of published and archival sources, Danforth offers a tour de force exploration of the relationship between democracy, diplomacy, modernity, Westernization, Ottoman historiography and religion in mid-century Turkey.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 A Nation Votes: Democratic Modernity for the Masses
- 2 Turkey Attends the American Classroom: US Modernity as Policy and Propaganda
- 3 Asia in Europe, Europe in Asia: The Possibilities of Synthesis
- 4 Multipurpose Empire: Ottoman History in Republican Turkey
- 5 Making the Past Modern: Popular History in Print
- 6 Ottomans, Arabs, and Americans: Geography and Identity in Turkish Diplomacy
- 7 The Path to Progress and to God: Islamic Modernism for the Cold War
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index